Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DWIGHT E. HARKEN Major, Medical Corps
Tenth Army officers did some adding up. Since the battle for Okinawa began some two months ago, 61,519 Japanese had been killed, 1,353 captured (U.S. losses: 10,221 killed and missing, 27,704 wounded). Some 20,000 to 30,000 defenders, still alive, might try to hold two...
Already there are signs of Nazi underground activity. Salzburg streets throng with a motley array of hikers in lederhosen and rucksacks, sunburned Wehrmachters still wearing parts of uniforms, soldiers in Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav, Italian and other uniforms with doubtful political loyalties-a mélange which has made good hunting...
And these men are different from those who were fighting the Japanese in the jungles of New Georgia and New Guinea two years ago. More than 50% of the names and serial numbers are different, because of replacements. But even where the names and serial numbers are the same, the...
On the Chinese side, Generalissimo Chiang streamlined the command of his field forces, began to clean up the worst abuses of a chain-gang system of local conscription. Now the Generalissimo works out basic strategy with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure...